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Re:Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ... by pjmlp on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:43AM (#13068940)
I don't buy into these excuses.

If Google really cared about OEM updates, it would make it as part of the requirements to license the Play Store.

Re:Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ... by rtkwe on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @10:41AM (#13071578)
I'm not so certain that's exactly how it'd go. OEMs faced with being forced to provide updates at an unknown pace might just decide to try to roll their own version of Play Services and the underlying data that those hook into, which given the quality of their normal bundleware isn't too promising.
Re:Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ... by pjmlp on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @12:28PM (#13072670)
And face the issue that key apps wouldn't run on their devices, thus making people not care about them.

As it already happened to a few that tried such attempts.

Amazon is probably the only one that can manage to push known app vendors to also publish on their store.